probably gonna sink like 2 grand into getting the tumors removed

fat chance itll be worth anything but i have to say i at least tried

I would almost just say, don't. It's one thing if it's a long-lived animals, but with rats it really only does so much. We researched it too when we had a rat start getting tumors. We loved her to death. But statistically speaking, most rats will not gain more than 6 more months from operations. Most significantly less.

We ended up just spoiling her until she passed away. It seemed more worth it I guess, than having her do all these operations and be in a constant state of healing.

im gonna find out what his chances are tomorrow and if its worth it, ill do it

otherwise im not putting him through all the shit

Yeah. That's kind of how we felt about it. We're also super poor. It just wasn't realistic to do something like that with such a low chance of success. Hers' were in bad spots, too. Like one was on the back of her neck.

hes got both on his stomach

Is it for sure cancer? Sometimes they get big fatty tumors.

im not 100% i just think it is

im finding out tomorrow

if its just fatty tumors they're definitely coming off

Well with luck, it could be fatty tumors. We had a few get that and still live for a year with them

hes luckily not a very active rat to begin with being blind and all

Albino?

so i dont think hes too phased by it

no shockingly

hes a blaze dumbo, black eyes

my feeder bin rats tho? live fucking 4 years lmfao

Huh, weird. We had an albino. She was probably our very favorite. She was very social with us, and a smart lil bugger

lol yep

yeah my longest living one was albino

She was a feeder, she'd had like 7 litters and then the neighbors were going to put her down

jeez

But we took her, she lived 2-3 years with us

Rats are underrated af

i dunno if want anymore after this

We phase in and out. We'll have a couple then not get any others for a few years

theyre really cool and interactive but theyre just not my thing

We're likely done at this point though

And if you happen to have one that's super cool and you love they just dont live very long and it's kind of sad

yeah im kind of getting into more long term pets

i can deal with the heartbreak of it and all but

the older i get the less time i have to dedicate and it just feels too short

We can too, but I like long-term pets more

We dedicate a LOT of time to pets I guess. We used to have a shelter, and we're going to start one back up once we get into our own place again

Last was ferrets, next is gonna be birds.

ive been more into birds recently since i found out we have a good bird breeder

kind of kicking myself in the ass tho because i couldve gotten a cockatoo for $200 and i got a cockatiel

Birds are awesome. We have 5 right now. The first was around 5 years ago at petco. We got a massive discount because no one wanted her

She was a serial biter. But she's good with us. (She is a green cheek though so only so good)